blutwurst

Definitions

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n. A blood sausage, blood pudding

Etymologies

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Borrowing from German Blutwurst, from Blut ("blood") + Wurst ("sausage").

Examples

For the Schlachtfest, Stralsunders gathered in hundreds, the women in their dirndls and men in old-fashioned suits, gobbling pig knuckle, leberwurst, knockwurst, dozens of waxy, greasy boiled potatoes, and of course, blutwurst.

The Germans also dispensed uncooked rations for the kriegies to prepare in their makeshift kitchens: worm-infested potatoes, margarine that looked like axle grease, and blutwurst, a sausage made from onions and congealed animal blood.

There were all sorts of things in the waggons -- food and corn, to which I allowed our men to help themselves, for our horses were short of oats and our men of rations, and some of the tinned meats, "gulasch" and "blutwurst," were quite excellent and savoury, much more so than our everlasting bully beef.

Yes, it's been a favorite topic for years, from the mysteries of the Slim Jim to the inner workings of things like blutwurst and head cheese, but up until now we've always pretty much stuck to meats that came, whole or in part, from animals.